DX11/DX10 Videocard Benchmarks: STALKER

Stalker: Clear Sky is a prequel to Stalker: Shadow of
Chernobyl. The player assumes the role of Scar, a veteran Stalker mercenary who
is rescued by Clear Sky, a faction looking to explore the ruins of the Chernobyl
power plant and solve the mystery at the heart of the Zone. The Sun Shafts test
is part of Stalker's benchmarking suite, which uses DirectX 10 graphics
capabilities and can stress even the fastest videocards.

STALKER Clear Sky -
Ultra HQ / DX10 / NoAA

Sun Shafts Test 1600x1200

Points

Ranking

Palit HD4870 X2 2GB

39.6

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

42.2

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

33.8

ASUS EAH5770 CuCore/2DI/1GD5/A

20.8

Gigabyte GV-R567OC-1GI

10.9

Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A (rev.A)

24.5

Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A

24.6

Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M

16.7

Gigabyte GV-R477D5-512HB

20.7

Gigabyte GV-R477D5-512HB Crossfire

31.5

Asus EAH4770 FML/DI/512MD5/A

17.1

Gigabyte GV-R435OC-512I

2.5

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

38.3

Gigabyte GV-N285OC-2G1

29.1

Gigabyte GV-N26SO-896I

50.2

ASUS ENGTX260 MT/HTDI/896MD3-A

22.8

Gigabyte GV-N26OC896H-GA

24.6

Sparkle GTX260 Core 216

25.1

ASUS ENGTS250 DK

17.3

ASUS EN9600GT DI/512MD3/A

9.3

ASUS EN9400GT DI/1GLP

2.2

Sun Shafts Test 1900x1200

Points

Ranking

Palit HD4870 X2 2GB

34.3

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

38.1

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

30.2

ASUS EAH5770 CuCore/2DI/1GD5/A

18.6

Gigabyte GV-R567OC-1GI

9.7

Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A (rev.A)

21.6

Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A

21.6

Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M

14.8

Gigabyte GV-R477D5-512HB

15.2

Gigabyte GV-R477D5-512HB Crossfire

27.3

Asus EAH4770 FML/DI/512MD5/A

15

Gigabyte GV-R435OC-512I

1.5

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

33.6

Gigabyte GV-N285OC-2G1

25.5

Gigabyte GV-N26SO-896I

43.9

ASUS ENGTX260 MT/HTDI/896MD3-A

20

Gigabyte GV-N26OC896H-GA

21.5

Sparkle GTX260 Core 216

19.9

ASUS ENGTS250 DK

13.9

ASUS EN9600GT DI/512MD3/A

8.1

ASUS EN9400GT DI/1GLP

1.5

Here's another test where the Geforce GTX 480 finishes
just ahead of the Gigabyte GVR587SO-1GD at 1920x1200 in DirectX 10 mode. The sun
shafts tests pushes a lot of shader power, but how will the Geforce videocard
fare in the DX11 version of this test?

Stalker: Call of Pripyat benchmark is
based on one of the in game locations. The testing process includes four stages,
those utilizing various weather and time of the day settings (day, night, rain,
bright sun). In order to test your system thoroughly the benchmark is provided
with a number of presets and options including different versions of DirectX
(9.0, 10.0, 11), screen resolutions, antialiasing etc, all at your disposal.

STALKER Call of Pripyat
- Ultra / DX11 / 4xMSAA/HDAO

Sun Shafts Test 1600x1200

Points

Ranking

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

32.8

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

26.3

ASUS EAH5770 CuCore/2DI/1GD5/A

16.4

Gigabyte GV-R567OC-1GI

10.1

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

29

Sun Shafts Test 1900x1200

Points

Ranking

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

28.0

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

22.4

ASUS EAH5770 CuCore/2DI/1GD5/A

13.8

Gigabyte GV-R567OC-1GI

8.5

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

25.4

When STALKER is flipped into DX11 mode there's a
dramatic change in performance as the higher graphics settings and details take
their toll on the performance of even the fastest videocards. Here at both
tested resolutions the Radeon HD 5870 is the fastest videocard tested, coming
out ahead of the Geforce GTX 480 by about 10%.

The Uniengine Heaven Benchmark vesion
2.0 is designed to test the DirectX 11 capabilities of next-generation
videocards, with an emphasis on tesselation effects. For this benchmark
tesselation is set to 'Extreme', which adds significant amounts of detail to the
rendered geometry.

Heaven Benchmark 2.0 -
DX11 / high / extreme /4xA / 0xAA

1280x1024

Points

Ranking

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

29.3

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

24

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

51.4

1600x1200

Points

Ranking

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

25.7

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

21.1

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

43.4

1920x1200

Points

Ranking

Gigabyte
GV-R587SO-1GD

23.4

ASUS EAH5850 DirectCu Top/2DIS/1GD5

19.3

ASUS ENGTX480 2DI/1536MD5

38.5

The
Gigabyte GVR587SO-1GD is trounced in this synthetic benchmark, which seems to be
better suited to NVIDIA's tesselation engine. At the highest resolution the
GVR587SO-1GD is nearly 40% slower than the Geforce GTX 480.